The Green Mill is a bar in the
Uptown neighborhood on the
North Side of Chicago. It's situated at the corner of
Broadway and
Lawrence, about a stone's throw in either direction from either the Lawrence stop on the
Red Line or the
Graceland Cemetery. It was founded in the early 1900s and named "Green Mill" to imitate the "
Moulin Rouge" ("Red Mill") nightclub in
Paris.
Chicago gangster Al Capone is said to have hung out here in the 1920s as well as
Evanston native
John Cusack (more recently)during the filming of "
High Fidelity". In 2001, I attempted to enter this bar with the
Red Elvises but we were thrown out because one of the band members' girlfriend was using a
fake ID to try to get past the doorman.
If you're really lucky, you might happen by here on a night when Patricia Barber is singing...